If a judge gives him probation, he will face a 20-year prison sentence if he commits another crime while on probation. Prosecutors also recommended a 15-year sentence with a chance for shock probation later or a 10-year sentence with no chance for probation.

Tinker was 16 and did not have a driver’s license when he crashed into a car that was carrying five other passengers. He was driving a stolen car 64 mph in a 35 mph zone on Six Mile Road when he swiped a mailbox, overcorrected and swerved across the centerline, striking the other car.

Both cars were totaled and he fled the scene.

Some of his victims and their family members were at court. Sherry Marler, mother of one of the victims and grandmother of the boy who suffered permanent brain damage, said the family is eager for closure.

“I don't think it helps anybody to have to go to jail,” she said. “I just wish they'd have done the right thing when they had the chance.”

Derwin Webb, attorney for Tinker, said he will ask Judge Susan Schultz Gibson to grant his client probation when he returns for sentencing on June 11.

“He was underage at that time and made a mistake, and I hope that mistake does not cost him more in his life,” Webb said.

Tinker has also agreed to speak to other young people about the consequences of his actions that night, Webb said.

Police say the car Tinker was driving was stolen by Thomas Summers, who was indicted with Tinker.

Summers appeared in court Thursday.

His attorney, Adam Hornback, said there is some confusion about whether Thomas was indicted twice for the same car theft.

Summers accepted a plea deal for four years in prison for a car theft, but Hornback was not his attorney in that case. Hornback and prosecutors said they are trying to determine whether the plea deal he accepted was for the same theft.